From my column in the The Catholic Weekly. Social researcher and commentator Hugh Mackay has a new book out this month with the title Beyond Belief. I’m yet to read it, but the publisher’s blurb says that it is Mackay’s examination of the phenomenon of Australians moving away from organised religion and religious institutions, while…
Category: Pitter Patter
Great gifts for children’s First Holy Communion, Confirmation
From my Catholic Weekly column We’re well and truly into First Holy Communion season, judging by the smattering on my Facebook feed of photos of people’s children in white dresses and veils or suits and angelic smiles. Prompted by this, and a reader who wrote in asking for suggestions of catechetical resources as gifts for…
It’s nice to be missed
I’ve had a few people ask me what’s happened to my Catholic Weekly column. I took a break for several weeks when I was feeling overwhelmed with general life stuff, but wrote one last week which will probably be in this Sunday’s issue of May 15. It’s on gift ideas for First Holy Communicants or…
I didn’t realise I was so rich until I thought about time
At the start of the summer school holidays we had a friend, a priest, over for dinner. We had a lot to talk about but one thing he mentioned briefly and I’ve thought about a bit since was our use of time. He believes that most of us are in for a shock when we…
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